Salvador Ventura - Selected Publications#

1. Garcia-Pardo J*, & Ventura S.* Cryo-EM structures of functional and pathological amyloid ribonucleoprotein assemblies. Trends in Biochemical Sciences. S0968-0004(23)00260-8 (2023). doi: 10.1016/j.tibs.2023.10.005.

2. Badaczewska-Dawid AE, Kuriata A, Pintado-Grima C, Garcia-Pardo J, Burdukiewicz M, Iglesias V*, Kmiecik S* & Ventura S.* A3D Model Organism Database (A3D-MODB): a database for proteome aggregation predictions in model organisms. Nucleic Acids Research. D1:D360–D367 (2024)

3. Navarro S, Díaz-Caballero M, Peccati F, Roldán-Martín L, Sodupe M & Ventura S.* Amyloid Fibrils Formed by Short Prion-Inspired Peptides Are Metalloenzymes. ACS Nano. 17(17):16968-16979 (2023)

4. Garcia-Pardo J, & Ventura S.* Chemical targeting of amyloids. Nature Chemical Biology. 19(10):1176-1177 (2023)

5. Garcia-Pardo J, Bartolome-Nafria A, Chaves-Sanjuan A, Gil-Garcia M, Visentin C, Bolognesi M, Ricagno S, Ventura S.* Cryo-EM structure of hnRNPDL-2 fibrils, a functional amyloid associated with limb-girdle muscular dystrophy D3. Nature Communications 14(1):239 (2023).

6. Santos J, Gracia P, Navarro S, Peña-Díaz S, Pujols J, Cremades N, Pallarès I, Ventura S.* α-Helical peptidic scaffolds to target α-synuclein toxic species with nanomolar affinity. Nature Communications 12(1):3752 (2021)

7. Pujols J, Peña-Díaz S, Pallarès I, Ventura S.* Chemical chaperones as novel drugs for Parkinson’s disease. Trends in Molecular Medicine. 26(4):408-421 (2020)

8. Pujols J, Peña-Díaz S, Lázaro D.L, … and Ventura, S.* (16/16). A novel small molecule inhibits α-synuclein aggregation, disrupts amyloid fibrils and prevents degeneration of dopaminergic neurons. PNAS 115:10481-10486 (2018)

9. Díaz-Caballero M, Navarro S, Fuentes I, Teixidor F, Ventura S.* Minimalist Prion-Inspired Polar Self-Assembling Peptides. ACS Nano 12:5394-5407 (2018)

10. Sant'Anna R, Gallego P, Robinson R.L, Pereira-Henriques A, … and Ventura, S.* (16/16) Repositioning Tolcapone as a potent inhibitor of transthyretin amyloidogenesis and associated cellular toxicity. Nature Communications 7:10787 (2016)

* Indicates the corresponding author

Salvador Ventura received >22900 citations (>11000 in the last 5 years). With respect to the productivity and impact factor of his published work, the h-index is 57 (i10-index is 185). Since 2013, Ventura's group published 180 articles (Salvador is the corresponding author in 78% of all publications). Just in the last 12 months, Ventura's group published 8 papers with IF>10.

A search in Web of Science with the Topic "Protein AND Aggregation" positions Ventura, S. between the Top 10 most productive authors worldwide in the last 10 years.

S. Ventura is among the 2% most influential researchers in Biochemistry & Molecular Biology according to Stanford University 2023.

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